Bots, Seeds and People – Web Archives as Infrastructure

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Bots, Seeds and People

Ed Summers / @edsu

484,000,000,000 / 1,000,000,000,000 = .484

Alpert, J. and Hajaj, N. (2008). We knew the web was big... Google.

Appraisal

The process of identifying materials offered to an archives that have sufficient value to be accessioned.

  • 39 contacted (email)
  • 33 responded
  • 28 interviewed
  • female (13) / male (15)
  • semi-structured interviews

Findings

  • crawling: domains, websites, events, topics
  • structures: hierarchies, networks, streams, items
  • resources: time, money
  • people: roles, staffing, change, politics
  • collaboration: organizations, outreach
currency: news, radio, rss, email breakdown: spreadsheets, forms, emails, DDoS

The documentary heritage should be formed according to an archival conception, historically assessed, which reflects the consciousness of the particular period for which the archives is responsible and from which the source material to be appraised is taken. Hans Booms (1988)

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